In 1997, Canada's youth custodial facilities held 3825 sentenced youths. Eighteen years later, this number was 527—an 86 percent reduction. Overall youth imprisonment (sentenced + pretrial detention) decreased by approximately 73 percent. This paper uses Canada's successful decarceration of youths to understand what might be learned about decarceration more broadly. By examining the reforms that transpired in Canada's treatment of young offenders since the 1960s and the political/cultural shifts that occurred since the 1990s, we demonstrate that the decline resulted from changes occurring in various parts of the system. Finally, we contrast this decarceration with more than 60 years of relative stability of Canadian adult imprisonment rates as well as Canada's failure to substantially decrease youth pretrial detention in order to identify those factors seemingly necessary to reduce imprisonment more generally.

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改变的意愿：加拿大成功取消青少年的经验教训

1997年，加拿大的青年监护机构拘留了3825名被判刑的青年。十八年后，这个数字为527，减少了86％。青年总的监禁（判刑和审前拘留）减少了约73％。本文利用加拿大成功地对青少年进行监禁，以期从更广泛的角度了解到有关监禁的知识。通过研究自1960年代以来加拿大对待未成年犯所进行的改革以及自1990年代以来发生的政治/文化转变，我们证明了下降是由于系统各个部分的变化所致。最后，我们将这种驱车与加拿大成年人入狱率以及加拿大的60年以上相对稳定情况进行对比